Canada

VANCOUVER In search of a more peaceful life we moved on to the world of art – at least it didn’t move. Although we checked out the main Vancouver Art Gallery, it was in the small Bill Reid Gallery on […]

VANCOUVER Although very little remains of Vancouver’s past, some effort at conservation has been made in the oldest original settlement known as ‘Gas Town’. The pride of place here has been given to the much photographed ‘Steam Clock’ – […]

THE TRAIN: THE MOUNTAINS The next morning, the train pulled into the Albertan capital of Edmonton at 9am. Climbing down from the carriage to take a stroll in the air, I noticed Shawna Caspi walking along the platform towards […]

THE TRAIN: THE PRAIRIE With a succession of metallic creaks, the train slowed as we approached Winnipeg. The smudged floodlights of industrial plants mingled with the long streaks of dawn until the sky blossomed into a clear blue arc […]

THE TRAIN: THE FOREST It was with regret that we left Toronto and Oscar’s new supporters. True to the Sandcastle Theatre philosophy, the production was indeed washed away by time and tide and evaporated into memory – if that’s not […]

TORONTO 2017 January: I first realised that I might be becoming slightly Canadian-ised when I glanced at the TV Weather Channel, saw that that the temperature stood at minus four degrees Celsius and quite genuinely thought: “Oh, that’s OK […]